Legal Assistant

at  ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING LLP

JOB DESCRIPTION & REQUIREMENTS

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with 48 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.
We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.
Whether you’re helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.
What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

DEPARTMENT & ROLE

Allen Overy Shearman Sterling Singapore is a hub for the firms work across ASEAN and India. Our history in Singapore spans more than 20 years. We were one of the first international firms to be granted a Singapore Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) licence in 2008, allowing us to practice Singapore law, and only one of four to have had the licence renewed for a further full five-year term in 2014. We have developed a culture in which difference is positively valued, and our people are free to be themselves.
We are in every sense one global team; supportive and collaborative, but also ambitious and driven. Our capacity to combine these qualities and provide a setting in which our people can thrive is what makes us different. The Singapore arbitration team is a market-leading practice. They advise on a wide range of arbitration matters, both commercial arbitrations and investor-State arbitrations, as well as arbitration-related court matters.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Experience working in the APAC region
• Experience in complex cross-border and multi-jurisdictional litigation work for an international law firm
• Experience in commercial arbitrations and investment treaty arbitrations
• Experience in a broad range of disputes, including large-scale international arbitrations, price review proceedings and litigation
• Excellent Client Relationships skills
• Strong commercial/business acumen with the ability to deliver creative and pragmatic solutions and advice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface at all levels and particularly to win the respect of the partner and fee-earner community, building strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborative team player with the ability to develop and work in a fast-paced, intellectually rigorous environment